Born and raised in the Philly suburbs, Amanda Koprowski has worked as, among other things, a bartender, a store manager, a hotel clerk and a community organizer. In addition to her short and long-form fiction, she has written on topics ranging from cult films to equipment financing to the subjective nature of morality. Awards for her short stories include finalist placement for the Mark Fischer Prize and second place in the Penmen Review Fiction Contest in fall 2021.
Owned by two cats and several hundred books, she has spent the last decade in Philadelphia after several years living in Colorado and Delaware. She is currently earning her MFA in creative writing and anticipates completing her first original novel, a fantasy western set outside Denver, by the end of the program.